Morning journal and courier., 1887-10-17

Day of Special Interest Yesterday at
the United Church The Handsome
Six thousand Dollars improvement
OF the Edffce.

A Day of Special Interest Yesterday at
the United Church The Handsome
Six Thousand Dollars Improvement
OF the Edifice.
Yesterday morning after weeks of patient
waiting the members of the United church
assembled once more in their usual place OF
meeting. The general or structural appear
ance of the church has not been much altered.
The walls have a different hue, while the
other alterations, as the seats in the gallery,
the doors leading into the church from the
vestibule. more room for the choir and the
stairs leading to the gallery, are decided i'm
provements. The glass chandelier will not
sparkle hereafter with 30 much irdiescent
beauty as formerly for the reason that there
is not as much of it to sparkle. DR.. Munger
preached from Revelations, 10, 5-"Praise
our God all ye his servants, and ye that fear
him both small and great"
It is one thing to point out inaccuracies or
discrepancies in the Bible, it is another thing
to gloat over it and reject its teachings. Even
the great Homer or Shakespeare are not free
from their faults, yet we do not for that
reason shut our eyes to their merits. Where
did Moses get his grand conception of crea-
ton, which science has not yet succeeded in
overthrowing? What led him to speak of the
true God as the great "I am" or give US laws
from which all true civilization and progress
proceed? What exalted morality the Bible
advocates! What transcendent righteousness
What tenderness without sentimentalism!
The book of Revelations is said by critics to
be incoheIent, yet its main feature is appar-
ent; the throne of God and the Lamb is ON
nipotent and all-prevailing. Pain has passed
away; every tear has been dried. How else
could such state be appropriately expressed!
An sdoring love of God is the highest aim
and the sweetest Joy of life. The epeculations
| of the highest philosophy and the best results
of science all point in this direction. Wor-
ship is the outcome of right action; lofty
| and exquisite is the pleasure that it gives.
Thought is the food Of the mind; worship
is the food of the soul; hence the value of
| attending church. We do not wish to I'M
| deryalue retirement The finer movements
l of the soul may arise in solitude or commun-
/ ing with the sky and the heavens, but the
| most ardent lovers of nature have been the
| most regular attendants in public worship,
| as for instance Wordsworth, the poet. It is
| the pseudo poets and the superficial admirers
of nature who depreciate public worship.
Goethe is right when he represents suicide
| arrested in his course by hearing the strains
of hymn.
DIR. Munger concluded his discourse by
telling his hearers that it is not enough to
have the church free Sunday evenings; they
(nls congregatlon) must come themselves anu
| show themselves interested in the services
| and welcome by their presence the strangers
who attend.
The pastor made a most telling point of
| the improved condition of the church by its
| tasteful and thorough renovation. So skill
| fully have the alterations been made in the
galleries that there seems no change, only in
| the beautiful new fresco. The stairways of
the galleries are easy and inviting and the
seats more commodious and desirable than
| those of the body of the church.